I hatch them setting up right in an egg carton because of their air cell issues from being shipped..and because most of the time the air cells are loose or detached I do not turn them at all for the first 5 days sometimes for 7 days and just depends on how the air cells look after the 5 days...
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I am keeping all of the chicks so far because this is my first year with them and a half egg layers but I had recently hatched some silkies and fell in love with them so now I'm doing nothing but silkies so my oldest silkies are 11 weeks old and then I have about a hundred silky eggs and my...
I do trust my measuring device.. I calibrated it with boiling water and ice water to be sure that it was correct!!! I cannot incubate anywhere near 55 at all I can't get above 40 without having sticky chicks that can't turn in the egg I wish I could incubate normally but I can't not where I live...
So you don't think that they can drown when they pip and there is entirely too much moisture on top of them?I understand where you're coming from and everything else I totally agree with but I don't agree with that and that's just because I've had chicks to pip the air sail and then die and when...
Ok I only hatch shipped eggs! I normally use 2 nurture right 360's but I just got a brinsea 56 EX!!! Normally when I hatch eggs and also I only hatch silky eggs but normally when I hatch them if I let the humidity get above 40 they drown.. so what I've been doing is running the incubator dry and...